Language Quotes

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.

I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

I was always influenced by language.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.